Urgent (I'm going away tomorrow): My friend recently went to a science festival for 16-18 year olds, in London. The theme was something along the lines of "improving lives". There was a lecture on autism which she went to, and wrote about it in a blog. She wrote that they were told about "treatment options for children suffering with autism", and "treatments to try and minimise symptoms", which I find very hard to read, as I'm autistic. My guess is that she didn't know much (if anything) 1/2
before the lecture, so didnāt question what she was being told. Iām seeing her this weekend, and am going to talk to her about it, as an autistic person, to try and show her that most of us donāt view ourselves as āsufferingā, and we donāt want our āsymptomsā (that make NT people uncomfortable) treated or minimised. Do you have any tips on how to get my point across well, or anything specific that I should mention? Thank you so much 2/2
Addition to my ask about my friend and the science festival: they then performed a DANCE to show the āstruggles that people with autism faceā, which is a whole new level of WHAT
Iām sorry we didnāt get to this in time.
Honestly, Iād just print out or save the blog post to my phone and systematically go through the entire thing with her, explaining your and the majority of the communityās view on these things.
Itās probably a good idea to preface this by saying that youāre not mad at her or trying to attack her, but this is an important subject to you. (I donāt know if youāre aut to her or not so your wording may change depending on if you are.)